What Guatemala buys, and from whom.
Guatemala imported USD 24bn of manufactured and processed goods in 2024, up 6 per cent on 2022. These are its twenty largest source countries. 4 of them ship enough, across enough product lines, to have a lane page of their own.
Trade year 2024, compared with 2022.
The twenty countries Guatemala imports most from.
A lane page is written where the source ships USD 1bn or more a year across at least 50 product lines worth USD 1m each. For what Guatemala is best placed to make itself, see Made here: Guatemala.
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1
China
Share of Guatemala's imports25 per centChangeup 12 per cent on 2022USD 5.9bnin 2024 -
2
United States
Share of Guatemala's imports16 per centChangeup 2 per cent on 2022USD 3.7bnin 2024 -
3
Mexico
Share of Guatemala's imports13 per centChangelevel with 2022USD 2.9bnin 2024 -
4
El Salvador
Share of Guatemala's imports5 per centChangeup 9 per cent on 2022USD 1.1bnin 2024 -
5
Costa Rica
Share of Guatemala's imports4 per centChangeup 18 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 897min 2024 -
6
Japan
Share of Guatemala's imports4 per centChangeup 29 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 857min 2024 -
7
India
Share of Guatemala's imports3 per centChangeup 5 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 716min 2024 -
8
Germany
Share of Guatemala's imports3 per centChangeup 24 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 586min 2024 -
9
Honduras
Share of Guatemala's imports2 per centChangeup 16 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 559min 2024 -
10
Vietnam
Share of Guatemala's imports2 per centChangeup 8 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 504min 2024 -
11
Brazil
Share of Guatemala's imports2 per centChangeup 8 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 472min 2024 -
12
South Korea
Share of Guatemala's imports2 per centChangedown 5 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 413min 2024 -
13
Spain
Share of Guatemala's imports2 per centChangeup 3 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 365min 2024 -
14
Indonesia
Share of Guatemala's imports2 per centChangeup 76 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 354min 2024 -
15
Colombia
Share of Guatemala's imports2 per centChangeup 16 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 350min 2024 -
16
Italy
Share of Guatemala's imports1 per centChangeup 16 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 327min 2024 -
17
Argentina
Share of Guatemala's imports1 per centChangeup 14 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 315min 2024 -
18
Thailand
Share of Guatemala's imports1 per centChangeup 33 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 284min 2024 -
19
Canada
Share of Guatemala's imports1 per centChangeup 25 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 241min 2024 -
20
Taiwan
Share of Guatemala's imports1 per centChangedown 8 per cent on 2022Lane pageunder the lane thresholdUSD 232min 2024
What crossed the border, what it was worth, and what it weighed.
Every figure on this page is from CEPII's BACI file, which reconciles what each pair of countries reports to the UN about the same shipment. Trade year 2024, compared with 2022. A line is one six-digit customs heading (HS 2022). Values are in US dollars at the border; growth is in current dollars, so part of any change is price, not volume.
Unit value. Unit values are customs values per tonne, declared at the border, not product prices. It is the value of a line divided by its declared weight, so it mixes grades, models and qualities under one heading. It is shown only where the weight is recorded, at least three source countries of USD 100k or more ship the line to Guatemala with a weight, and the figure sits within a factor of five of the middle of those sources. Outside that band it is treated as a recording problem and left out.
Share is China's part of everything Guatemala imported in that line, from every source. Sources counts the countries that shipped any of it.
Scope. Manufactured and processed goods, customs chapters 16 to 96, without ores, fuels, precious metals, scrap, raw farm output and one-off capital and defence purchases: the same rule as the Made here pages.
A record of trade, not a shopping list.
What this record does not say: what sells at retail, what margin a trade leaves, how crowded the marketplaces are, or how much of a flow is re-exported through entrepots such as Hong Kong and Singapore.
A large line is not proof of an opening, and a lower unit value from another country is not proof the goods are the same. Tariffs, standards, freight, payment terms, lead times and the plain fact that a supplier is good at it are all invisible here. Nothing on this page is a forecast, a recommendation or a promise. No supplier company is named, because the record holds none.
Source: CEPII BACI, HS22, version 202601. Edition of 2026-11-03.